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Solar observing programs are different from their night-time counterparts. The need to obtain a unique dataset in a long-established field drives a very flexible setup of instrumention at solar telescopes. This in turn requires heavy involvement of the user in customized instrument definition and layout. The instrument setup, selection procedures, and user statistics at the Dunn Solar Tower (DST) of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) at Sacramento Peak are discussed as a typical example of a solar observing program.
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Uitenbroek, H. (2006). Evaluation and Selection of Solar Observing Programs. In: Heck, A. (eds) Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy Volume 6. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 335. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4056-3_8
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